The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance (6 countries) that came into effect in 2002. Its’ origin can be traced to the Collective Security Treaty, 1992 (Tashkent Treaty). The headquarter is located in the Russian capital of Moscow.
History
- It is an intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on 15th May 1992.
- In 1992, six post-Soviet states belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States—Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—signed the Collective Security Treaty.
- This is also referred to as the “Tashkent Pact” or “Tashkent Treaty”.
- Three other post-Soviet states—Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia—signed the next year and the treaty took effect in 1994.
- Five years later, six of the nine—all but Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan—agreed to renew the treaty for five more years, and in 2002 those six agreed to create the CSTO as a military alliance.
Headquarters: Moscow, Russian
Members:
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan.
Objectives:
To strengthen peace, international and regional security including cybersecurity and stability, the protection on a collective basis of the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the member states.
As of late, CSTO nations adopted measures to counter cybersecurity threats in a Foreign Ministers Council meeting in Minsk, Belarus.
Reference: https://en.odkb-csto.org/
